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Abstract
The future of psychiatry as a medical speciality depends on its integration with the rest of medicine, both professionally and administratively. The rapprochement between neurology and psychiatry can be foreseen. However, the emphatic approach of psychiatry must be retained, as well as the biopsychosocial paradigm. Psychiatry can neither be “mindless” nor “brainless”. Nor can it exist in a social vacuum. Psychiatry is concerned with treatment and rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders and research, which is the foundation on which clinical work must be based. Prevention must be based on research. Research needs funds, which are too scarce, and access to personal data, which has been made increasingly difficult and complex by data protection laws and their implementation.